Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

This country piles up $l,5Oo,Ooo,'
900 of wealth yearly.
One hundred and sixty millions OF
Northern capital has sought investment
in the South within the past year.
Needles originally came from
Spain. The method of making them
was introduced into England by Ger,
man named Cowes, during the reign OF
Elizabeth.
A club of scientists and linguists
has been formed in San Francisco,
CAL, for the study of the Volapuk Ian
guage, the invention of a German
priest named Schleyer.
The Ohio Dairy and Food Commits
sion officially states that the stuff sold
as California 'orange cider" is prn-
cipally tartalic acid and grape sugar,
favored with. orange oil.
"A negro living near Calera, Ala,
let rattlesnake bite him for straw
hat worth fifteen cents. He put blue
clay poultice on the wound, swallowed
some plug tobacco, and next day
started off for camp meeting with the
new hat slanted over his left ear.
The Salt River Valley News says:
Gas an evidence of what civilization i,
doing for the Indians, we noticed last
Wednesday in one of our stores the
purchase of an immense wire hustle by
a young and giddy Pima squaw. She
was quite particular. and finally selected
one of the wire arrangements with blue
trimmings"
The making of glass is said to have
been taught the Egyptians by Hermes.
P!iny credits its discovery to Syria. 1t
was in use among the Romans in the
time Of Tiberius, and excavations at
Pompeii show that windows were
formed of it prior to A. d. 20. 1t is
said to have been introduced into Eng
land by Benedict Biscop, Abbot Of
Weymouth, in A. ID. GIG.
Deacon Trenton, of Lanes Siding,
n. Y, was cutting grass when he saw
queer-looking reptile, about four feet
and five inches in length and Of red
1ish-brown color. On the tip of its tail
there was horn over a quarter of an
inch in length. 1t struck at the dea-
con with its tail. A random blow
stunned the reptile, however, and it
was quickly dispatched by a well-aimed
rap at the farmers hands.
"A German statistician announces
that mari has twice the attraction for
lightning which chalk has, and that
sand has nine times and clay twenty
times as much. Moreover fifty-four oak
trees and fifteen pine trees are struck
for every beech tree that the light
ming touches; so that, if one is caught
out in thunder storm, and must stand
under tree, it is better to stand un-
der beech tree which is rooted in
chalky ground than anywhere else.
"A young Englishman says he is as
tonished by the number of cigars he
sees smoked on the streets in this coun-
try. On arrival he was "simply as
founded to observe teamsters, porters,
cabmen aye, even peddlers with
hand-carts- smoking cigars. In Eng
land, you know, q man who never
smokes any thing on the street but a
cigar is looked upon as an epicure, and
if he is not gentleman of landed prop
crty is regarded as a very extravagant
fellow"
Miss Lydia Broward, who lives
near st. Johns, Fla, recently adopted
"a novel scheme for finding an old and
shrewd hen turkey that had stolen her
nest. When the turkey came to the
house she caught it, and tied a piece Of
strong bacon upon one foot. She then
watched it carefully until it started for
its nest. Then good dog was placed
On the trail, and, guided by the scent,
soon found the cautious old turkey
three-quarters of mile from the house,
and in the midst of dense grove of
palmettoes.
Joseph Ellison, of Toronto, took
his two little boys out in small boat
the other evening, and one hundred
yards from the dock one of the boys
fell overheard. Ellison a poor swim
mer, at once jumped in after him, and
grasped the boy, who clung to his
neck dragging him down. The father
shouted for help, but the persons on
the dock thought that he was teaching
his child how to swim. Finally boat
put out and, as it drew near, Ellison,
completely exhausted, pushed his boy
away from him, and, gasping "Saye
the boy! never mind me!'' sank to the
bottom and was drowned. The boy was
saved.
Henry Wynn, middfe-aged bach
elor, who has long lived in the North
west recently visited his brother in
Owen Sound, Canada, and then
decided that he wanted to get married.
He didn't know woman in town ex-
cept his brothers wife, and he offered
her fifty acres of land if she'd find him
a wife. Mrs. Wynn went to work to
earn the money, but it was not until
her brother-in-law was about to start
for his home that she found maiden
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